When I was growing up, the BBC provided journalism at its very best. The anchors spoke so clearly, and with such grammatical precision, that “BBC English” became a standard in its own right. If you wanted to understand something in the news, the BBC was the most accurate and unbiased report you could find. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
What happened at the BBC? Pt I
January 15th, 2011 
Gareth Dickson 
Posted in copyright, North America, trademarks, UK and Europe 
Tags: Apple, trade marks, trademarks, US 
No Comments »Apple headphones faulty – replacement program available
August 27th, 2010 Gareth Dickson Apple has written on its website that the headphones shipping with a number of its products (iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch and iPhone) are faulty and should be replaced. Please help spread the word so that anyone entitled to a replacement can do so before the replacement program ends. Most of the necessary details can be [...]
MySQL on Mac OSX (10.6, Snow Leopard)
August 27th, 2010 Gareth Dickson I was ready to give up on trying to set up MySQL on a MacBook and revert to my trusty six year old, rapidly-falling-apart laptop, when I came across two articles (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293484/easiest-way-to-activate-php-and-mysql-on-mac-os-10-6-snow-leopard and http://maestric.com/doc/mac/apache_php_mysql_snow_leopard), which seem to have fixed my issues. All I needed to do in the end was change my socket locations. What is [...]
How dangerous is your iPad?
June 16th, 2010 Gareth Dickson If a picture paints a thousand words, and the pen is mightier than the sword, just how dangerous is an iPad? At first glance, it looks safe enough. From a design point of view, it’s hardly adventurous, looking very much like Dom Joly‘s Trigger Happy iPhone (I think my favorite is at 3mins15seconds, but watch [...]
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